Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I rise to speak in support of the Flake amendment No. 2582 that is currently pending before the body. This amendment is very simple. It simply adds a 6-year sunset to the bill. This amendment also keeps in place the liability protections established by the Cyber Security and Information Sharing Act for information that is shared pursuant to the requirements of the bill. Furthermore, the amendment ensures that the requirements on how the information is shared under the act is to be handled remain in effect after the sunset date. That is all this amendment does. It simply sunsets the bill in 6 years, and it does so in a reasonable and responsible way. I believe in the sunset provision. It is good for us to consider our past decisions 6 years from now, to determine whether what we enacted is operating well, and to debate the overall success of the legislation that we passed 6 years prior. We ought to do that, frankly, on a lot of other legislation we pass. I do believe the bill we are currently considering, as it is written, strikes the right balance. It puts in place the proper privacy protections, and I plan to support the legislation. However, it is important to make sure that we are forced to go back and evaluate it in the years to come to make sure we actually got it right. Given the nature of the bill being debated before us, it is all the more important to do so in this instance.…”